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[[Image:WurmPanorama.jpg|right|thumb|640px|Welcome to the [[Geographic Research 2|World of the Wurm]].]]

This tutorial is supposed to help you get started if you are new, or just supply a quick refreshment if you've forgot how to play.

After each section, you will find links to related articles you may want to look at.

The first thing you want to do is to create a valid account. To do this, go to the [http://www.wurmonline.com/ Wurmonline webpage] and click Register. You will be asked for a Player name and an email address. Please note that the playername can only contain Alphabetic characters and no spaces. All letters in the name but the first one will be in lowercase.

'''[ [[Common bugs and solutions]] | [[Client Configuration]] ]'''

When you start wurm for the first time you will be greeted with a Basic Game Play message, scroll down and click send.

The interface consists of 6 major components, only 2 are visible by default.

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*'''Green: Stamina''' - Your stamina will decrease while doing fatiguing tasks and increase while resting.

Hovering the mouse over any of these bars will give you a percentage (%) level.

[[Image:Tutorial Chatboxes.jpg|800px]]<br>

In the lower left is the chatbox, here you can communicate with other players and send special slash-commands (/help) to the eventlog. By clicking on the 'Jenn-Kellon' Kingdom tab, you can talk globally to all players on the same server. If the Jenn-Kellon chat tab is not available, you can type ''/shout <message>'' in the local channel to open the J-K channel.

Hovering the mouse over any of the skills will display you a more precise value.

[[Image:Tutorial Inventory.jpg|right|thumb|Inventory Window]]

Aah, the good stuff. Press '''F3''' to bring your inventory window up.

The inventory tree displays all items (including money if you have any), you have gathered. You will start with some basic low-quality items.

The console is brought up by pressing the '''F1''' key.

There is not much use of the console other than entering the ''toggle status'' command.

If you have acquired a compass and put it in you inventory, the compass will be visible next to your stamina bar.

'''[ [[Newtown]] | [[Deed]] ]'''

Before you leave the safety of the New Town deed (all land areas owned by someone is called a deed), you should gear up.

To equip your items; Open the inventory and expand all trees, now click and drag the ''Wooden shield'' onto your ''Left arm''. Put the ''Small axe'' in your right hand, and drag the ''Backpack'' to your torso.

You are now ready to head out on your first Quest. (There are no quests in this game, you make them up yourself!)

<br>Your first Quest is to find clay in order to make a Pottery bowl.

[[Image:Tutorial Clay.jpg|right|thumb|Digging for [[Clay]].]]

Take a look at the token outside the buildings, it has a sundial and a compass.

'''[ [[Servermap]] | [[Newtown Map]] | [[Newtown Roadmap]] | [[Clay]] ]'''

[[Image:Tutorial Pottery.jpg|right|thumb|Creating a bowl]]

Open up your inventory again and activate the shovel by doubleclicking it. Stand on a clay tile, rightclick, and choose dig. You should now start digging clay unless the tile is too steep. If all you get is dirt, drop the dirt by using the rightclick-dropdown menu and move to another clay tile.<br>

'''[ [[Digging]] | [[Clay Bowl]] | [[Clay Jar]] ]'''

[[Image:Tutorial Fire.jpg|right|thumb|A Lit Campfire]]

To make a fire, you need to find a tree. The best trees for fire is old Pine trees, as they have large amounts of wood. To see how old the tree is, rightclick the tile it's on and select ''Examine''.

'''[ [[Felled Tree]] | [[Log]] | [[Kindling]] | [[Campfire]] | [[Pottery Bowl]] | [[Pottery jar]] ]'''

[[Image:Tutorial Nature.jpg|right|thumb|Foraging grass for food]]

Finding food is relatively easy, however, you won't stay full for long on just berries and parsley.

'''[ [[Guide To Cooking]] | [[Fishing]] | [[Fishing Rod]] | [[Farming]] ]'''

You probably have gotten some wounds by now, don't worry, most of them will heal by themselves.<br>

To treat a wound, expand your body tree activate a ''Healing cover'' and Treat the wound using the dropdown menu.

To heal a more serious wound such as a ''severe'' or a ''bad'' one, you must to use ''Cloth rags'' or ''Cotton'' on the wound to Firstaid it or the wound might get worse and eventually kill you.

Some foraged and botanized items has healing powers that may be used in alchemy to create healing covers. Healing covers will, as the name says, help heal your wounds faster.

'''[ [[Healing Cover]] | [[Rags]] | [[Cotton]] ]'''

Improving and Finishing items works pretty much the same way as creating them, except that you may need special tools or items for the job. To see what your ''unfinished clay bowl'' needs, examining it will tell you what it is.<br>

Your clay bowl will probably have to be molded with a wooden spatula or a clay shaper. You need to make the clay shaper or spatula from a wooden shaft, which you get by using a carving knife on a log. You should know how to do this by now.<br>

'''[ [[Shaft]] | [[Wooden spatula]] | [[Wooden clay shaper]] | [[Repairing]] ]'''

Rightclick a player or an NPC and choose ''Trade'' in the dropdown. If you find the trading process difficult to understand, then this section is for you.<br>

It has four components;

'''[ [[Trader]] | [[Personal Merchant]] | [[Trader Jake]] ]'''

If you are still around the Newtown area, there should be plenty of caves opened already. You just need to find an unlocked one with an iron vein inside...

'''[ [[Blacksmithing]] | [[Forge]] | [[Mallet]] | [[Iron lump]] | [[Small Anvil]] ]'''

To make a forge, you first need to create an iron stone chisel using your anvil. You can then use the stone chisel to create stone bricks from rock shards. Use a stone brick on some clay to create a forge.

'''[ [[Iron stone chisel]] | [[Stone Brick]] ]'''

Even though the fighting in wurm is not a great experience, it is good to know how to do it. But first, feed the fire another log and make yourself a shortsword.

Shields are equipped on your left arm and will help you block attacks, and also perform the shieldbash action. However, you can't use your secondary weapon while wearing a shield.

You don't want to fight a player on the home server you are on now, as this is illegal and will put you into outlaw status. See if you can find a weak animal such as a hen, chicken or even a pig. Do mind though that creatures with a red outline might attack you on sight.

'''[ [[Fighting]] | [[Outlaw]] | [[Shortsword]] | [[Butchering knife]] | [[Butchering]] ]'''

When you die, ''if'' you die, your view will be all red and a popup window will ask you where you want to spawn. Unless you're a citizen of a village or own a homestead, you will only have one option on the list.. '''''Start'''''.

You can still retrieve your lost items if you can find your corpse. Your corpse will stay for some time, and no one can legally take anything from it. But, once the time runs out, your corpse will have decayed and all that is left is a pile of tools where everyone is free to take.

You have reached the end of this tutorial, give yourself a round of applause! (Yes, you can do that too. Rightclick your body in the inventory...)